Mervyn Kahn writes: > How do or what do I have to do to change the from to have less than all of > the following > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Teamepasella > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can't; this is a bug in the user's mail program, probably Outlook. The most straightforward approach is to tell your users not to use Outlook. (I'm joking; you can't really do that, of course. But it's the only thing that will work without harming your lists.) Internet mail has two separate headers, "From" which gives the author's return address, and "Sender" which indicates the source account which actually injected the message into the mail system. You should reply to "From" if you want to discuss the content of the message, but to "Sender" if there is a technical question (such as a change of address). Very often they are the same, of course, especially in personal mail. Most mail programs sensibly show only the "From" address by default; few users ever need to communicate with mail administrators on other systems. Unfortunately, Outlook thinks it's a good idea to show both if they are different, combining them in the format "SENDER on behalf of FROM". Mailman uses this distinction to ensure that "bounces" from undeliverable addresses (which are very common on mailing lists these days) are sent to the mailing list administrator, *not* to the author of the post who usually has no idea who else is or should be subscribed to the list. > Can I eliminate the [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from the from ? Not without editing the Mailman source code, and suffering from the lack of competent bounce processing. For more details, see the FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
